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Designer who builds. Builder who designs.

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25 years of shipped product, from the Kindle in your hand to the trucks on the road. I still write the Next.js front-end and the MySQL behind it.

The rarest of designer leaders. A force multiplier.

Rob ChristensenProduct Leader, AI + Devices. Worked with Dion at Amazon & Samsung
SAMSUNG/AMAZON/BOSE/INTUIT/ELECTRONIC ARTS/ROMEO POWER/BATTLE MOTORS/
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Shipping product at scale

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Skill endorsements

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Production case studies, live now

F500

Samsung · Amazon · Bose · Intuit

Services / How we engage

Designer who builds.
Builder who designs.

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UI/UX Design

Design systems, interaction design, and motion, documented all the way through handoff. I start from first principles and the work holds up when other people have to build on it.

  • Design systems & tokens
  • Interaction & motion design
  • Figma → dev handoff specs
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)

UI Design (37) · Interaction (31) · UX (31) · Visual (16)

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Front-End Engineering

Fast, instrumented front-ends in Next.js or React, with motion built in as a system from day one. I treat Lighthouse 95+ as the floor.

  • Next.js / React build
  • Framer Motion + scroll choreography
  • Performance budgets & Core Web Vitals
  • Component libraries

Shipped React/TS at Battle Motors, Fortris, EA

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Backend & Data

MySQL-backed admin dashboards and APIs. I write the schema, the queries, and the front-end that consumes them.

  • MySQL schema & API design
  • Admin & dealer dashboards
  • Live data components
  • Serverless integrations

Production PHP/MySQL behind battlemotors.com

Live data / The backend proof

Most designers claim
full-stack. Here's the query.

This panel is served by a Next.js API route reading a MySQL page_views table, the same stack behind battlemotors.com. It refreshes every 20 seconds. Schema and queries ship in the repo.

/api/metrics
connecting…
querying page_views…
About / The operator

25 years of
shipped product.

I currently lead design and marketing at Battle Motors. Before that: Samsung, Amazon Lab126 on the Kindle, Bose, Intuit, and Romeo Power. I've owned the product story, the design system, the front-end, and the database behind it, sometimes all on the same product.

UI Design37Interaction31UX Design31Visual16Motion12Art Direction11Research10Front-end9MySQL7Typography8